Azure Solution Architect
Location: Washington, DC
Employment Type: Contract / Fulltime

Job Description: About 12 years of experience in architecting/designing compute-intensive solutions with Azure
Preferable certification: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Proven track record of developing Azure architecture for large-scale, production-grade applications
In-depth knowledge of Azure compute services (VMs, Azure Web-Apps, App Services, Logic Apps Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Batch, etc.)
Familiarity with orchestration tools (Azure Resource Manager, Terraform, etc.).
Understanding of hybrid cloud scenarios
Ability to deliver functionality incrementally adopting agile practices, Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)
Experience with IT projects in the Financial Industry
Experience with IT projects utilizing multiple technologies and frameworks, particularly agile/hybrid agile.
Deep knowledge and experience of Microsoft Azure cloud platforms and services in an enterprise environment. Experience with IaaS/PaaS cloud architectures and patterns (e.g., horizontal scaling, immutability, 12-factor design).
Prior experience with leading cloud native solution development initiatives.
Experience with delivering effective strategies for cloud integration.
Experience designing and implementing CI/CD toolchains leveraging Microsoft TFS, Git/SVN, Chef, Jenkins, etc. Experience with cloud infrastructure and application templates (e.g., Azure Resource Manager).
Familiarity with micro-frontends, implementing microservices and container-based architectures and deployments (e.g., Docker, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes).
Prior success in designing cloud applications, supporting changes to development, testing, deployment, migration/transformation, and configuration management processes consistent with a DevOps approach.
Familiarity with deployment patterns/strategy (blue/green, canary, rolling, draining)